On: Ask HN: Do web app yourself – is it relevant?

[TophWells]

>Give a way to non-professional programmer to create simple web application.

Sounds like a good idea. Wait...

>(JSON format)

What is this JSON of which you speak? It sounds like programming to me! I won't have any of it!

I don't see why or how you want to get non-programmers interested in your programming environment. Rails already has a way to create simple web apps in a few minutes, but I don't know any non-programmers who use it. What's different about this, apart from the fact that you can write killer web apps starting from the code that "rails generate" produces?

[thelogicalbox → TophWells]

Thank you for your feedback.

JSON defines data. Human can write and read JSON files.

Add logic to the data seems to me easier for non-programmer to define what a program should do.

A basic JSON file for describing a circle could be: { "radius": 5, "diameter" : 25 }

With the following program, we can modify the radius and see the diameter value: { "radius": "att(5)", "diameter" : "radius * radius" }

It is closed to the original file.

The difference with solutions like Rails is that people do not need to know how to deploy an application.

In this project, people write in a JSON file and the application is automatically ready to serve the data.